My Summer Car
Worth it · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.46/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 119,023
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Holding it back: AI content
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 32.6h
- To 100%
- 142.1h 4.4x the story
- Achievements
- 77
Price and sales
- Sales
- 4 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $9.44 June 2025
- Sale every
- 241d last June 2025
Players and genre
- Online
- 2,001 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
4 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 34 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 69 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 ($1.39, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats My Garage ($19.99, scores 52).
More about My Summer Car
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 26 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 4,657 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 32.6 hours; clearing it takes 142, which is 4.4 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 119,023 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 7 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 486 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
good game you can piss while smoking while flipping people off while driving a tractor and commit many felonies and destroy the satsuma in a high speed crash upon upgrading it using your "dirty" money
2 more reviews
played this game for 44+ hours with about 6 deaths and did not manage to get car to work in a single attempt. 10/10 game
This game is like bring trapped in Hell, with Satan laughing at your every fumble. Its frustrating, irritating, and needlessly complicated for a game. What you begin to realize though if you stick with it, you can not only survive, but thrive. After having endured this Finnish hellscape, built the car after many many many tries...I feel somehow, on some level, I have now shared this very human experience of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 960 or AMD equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
My Summer Car scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/516750/my-summer-carReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.